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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. “They have not accepted me as a human teacher on my own account, unsent and uncommissioned, but they perfectly...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. It has been their treasure. They have preserved it as a priceless blessing. They would never let it go.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now they have known,.... The Syriac version reads it ידעת, "I have known"; and so the Persic and Gothic versions, contrary to most copies and other versions, which read, as we render, "they have known", that is, the disciples and apostles of Christ: that all things whatsoever thou hast given me; all temporal things, the world and the fulness of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. I pray far them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. “They have learnt to link the Father and the Son; they know that though I am the channel of all blessing, yet thou, O my Father, art the fountain from which it flows.” “Jesus, we bless thy Father’s name Thy God and ours are both the same; What heavenly blessings from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. How the blessed Christ loves to lay aside all honour to himself even in his own gospel! He said that the things which he had taught to his disciples were not his own, they were the Father’s. The Father always honours the Son, and the Son takes care always to honour the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. I want you to notice how the Lord Jesus Christ makes no boast of being “an original...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; Every preacher of the gospel should ask is it that this is true concerning himself. When we pass on to the people the words which God has given to us, we supply them with real spiritual food, and so we glorify...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them. Is it so with you, dear friend? Have you received Christ’s words the very words which the Father gave to him, and which he has in his turn given to you? O soul, thou art indeed happy if...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. The Father gives Christ the truth which Christ gives to as. The Father gives Christ the souls which Jesus keeps until the day of his power. There is mutual communion between God the Father and his blessed Son; let us never say a word that might look as if we did not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me, and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. You see how the truth reached these disciples. The Father gave the words to his Son...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou invest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. Now that description of the people of God in Christ’s day is true of us today. We...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now they have known that all things to whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. See how the Lord Jesus himself takes all his teaching from the Father. You never...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For I have given unto them the words,.... Not commands, but doctrines; and these not the doctrines of men; nor any of the divers and strange doctrines; but what are called in Scripture the doctrine of God, of Christ, of the apostles, are agreeably to the Scriptures, and according to godliness; and are styled the word of truth, of faith, of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. He is looking at them in contrast with the world which utterly rejected him; in contrast with that world, the disciples had received and known Christ. Oh, what a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. There was a specialty in Christ’s prayer now that he was nearing the end of his earthly life. He concentrated his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; You know how men talk against “verbal inspiration.” Yet Christ says, “I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me.” Many are trifling with the teaching of God’s Word, as if it were of no importance at all Not so did Christ: “I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me.”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. There are great depths in these words. One of the greatest of German divines always refused to preach from this chapter, for he said he felt that few of God’s...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I pray for them,.... This is to be understood of Christ, not as God; for as such he is the object of prayer; nor need he pray to any other; nor is there any superior to him under that consideration to pray unto; but as man and Mediator: nor is his praying any argument against his deity; nor proof of inferiority to his Father with respect to his...